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`Competing for Sunlight` is a Short Dance Film Series, featuring protagonists of a range of different tree species and Dance, telling individual short stories. “The death of a species, especially a species as significant as the Ash, punches a hole not only in nature, but also in our culture”. - George Monbiot Starting in the early nineties in Eastern Europe, an Asian fungus has gradually conquered the European continent, infecting almost all ash trees. The symptoms are very severe, many cases leading to the death of most trees. As aresult, it is assumed that the ash tree in Europe will soon be close to extinct. Choreographer and dancer Dagmar Dachauer was inspired by the sad faith of the European ash tree, and linked it to personal loss in her own life. Finis est cinis: Ash is what remains. Ash is a eulogy for the ash tree and for Prasthan Dachauer, who passed away in 2016.

Dagmar Dachauer is a dancer, choreographer and filmmaker born in Linz, based in Brussels. She grew up in a lonely house in the Upper Austrian forest, a place that continuously inspires her work. She has studied Dance at Amsterdamse Hogeschool voor de Kunsten as well as at P.A.R.T.S. in Brussels. She founded the Austrian art association UMFUG, in which she realizes dance and theatre performances as well as film projects with collaborators coming from various backgrounds such as Ecology, Cinema, Theatre, Music and Sound Design. Her solo works about the Viennese Waltz (“Wunderbare Jahre” and “Wie soll ich das erklären”), as well as her dance films have received several awards and are touring internationally.